# Does your \*shared\* hosting account work without errors? **URL:** \ **Category:** Rails\ **Created:** [February 15, 2006, 10:07pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/does-your-shared-hosting-account-work-without-errors/53879 "2006-02-15T22:07:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![aseldo](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/e95f7d/32.png) [@aseldo](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/aseldo)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2006, 10:07pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/does-your-shared-hosting-account-work-without-errors/53879/1 "2006-02-15T22:07:33Z")
Does your _shared_ hosting account work without errors? I’m interested in both positive and negative reports. If you are willing, please contribute - name of the hosting service - how long you have used them - your experience (“flawless!”, “it’s crap!”) You _do not_ need to reply saying your VPS service works great. This is about _shared_ hosting and I’m trying to understand if it works…anywhere. (Yes, I am trying this again. Responses from my last question veered off course. Some people did reply with success stories. Thank you.) My premise is that 1) shared hosting services use apache proxied to lighttpd to fastcgi, and 2) with hundreds of users, requiring lots of apache restarts and 3) periodic errors for visitors to the hosted site. ---
**Author:** ![aseldo](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/e95f7d/32.png) [@aseldo](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/aseldo)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2006, 10:13pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/does-your-shared-hosting-account-work-without-errors/53879/2 "2006-02-15T22:13:38Z")
Kelly, 1. TextDrive 2. Six Months 3. Lots of downtime, for both web services and email. Server restarts seem to be quite common. I’m on Jervis. Generally, I haven’t been too pleased with the experience. Features are good, reliability bad. Thanks for the effort… I’m very curious about the results. Matt ---
**Author:** ![aseldo](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/e95f7d/32.png) [@aseldo](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/aseldo)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2006, 10:22pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/does-your-shared-hosting-account-work-without-errors/53879/3 "2006-02-15T22:22:49Z")
1. TextDrive 2. About 6 months 3. No downtime of consequence (I’m on Burnaby). I’ve got several rails apps or differing sizes across multiple domains there, with no troubles I can blame on TxD. I develop locally on WinXP and WEBrick, and upload to TxD for production under Lighttpd. I’ve been very happy there. -eric ---
**Author:** ![aseldo](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/e95f7d/32.png) [@aseldo](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/aseldo)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2006, 10:32pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/does-your-shared-hosting-account-work-without-errors/53879/4 "2006-02-15T22:32:00Z")
1. Dreamhost 2. 6 months 3. pretty good. Some downtimes, a few of consequence. Some from crashes, a few from hardware problems. I get the idea that there are lots of users on my machine (foothill). ---
**Author:** ![aseldo](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/e95f7d/32.png) [@aseldo](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/aseldo)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2006, 10:16pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/does-your-shared-hosting-account-work-without-errors/53879/5 "2006-02-15T22:16:42Z")
1. TextDrive 2. _About 1 year_ 3. Lots of downtime, for both web services and email. Server restarts seem to be quite common. I’m on _Pendrell_. Generally, I haven’t been too pleased with the experience. Features are good, reliability bad. Eric Matt W. wrote: > ## Matt \* your experience (“flawless!”, “it’s crap!”) to lighttpd to fastcgi, and 2) with hundreds of users, requiring > > * * * > > Rails mailing list > removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid > [http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails](http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails) – Eric G. [http://www.ericgoodwin.com](http://www.ericgoodwin.com) ---
**Author:** ![aseldo](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/e95f7d/32.png) [@aseldo](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/aseldo)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2006, 6:23pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/does-your-shared-hosting-account-work-without-errors/53879/6 "2006-02-16T18:23:35Z")
1. TextDrive 2. 8 months since deployment 3. 3 apps, ones on Burnaby and Thurlow - minimum downtime, wonderfully reliable, happy clients. One on Gilford - enormous, unbearable and embarassing amount of downtime averaging to a server restart every day or two, with an hour of downtime every time it goes back up due to the long fsck. Overall experience - “they know their thing but Rails is unfit for shared hosting as a technology, so no blame on them”. I expect any shared hosting provider offering normal level of control for Rails deployment to accumulate the same problems TextDrive has as soona s the user base grows big enough. – Julian ‘Julik’ Tarkhanov me at julik.nl ---
**Author:** ![aseldo](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/e95f7d/32.png) [@aseldo](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/aseldo)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2006, 11:02pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/does-your-shared-hosting-account-work-without-errors/53879/7 "2006-02-15T23:02:31Z")
- Planet Argon - Since 3/05 - Very good. I have monitors that check uptime, and they’re better than 99%. There have been a few minor glitches, but their customer service has been excellent. You’d have to check with them regarding how they set things up now. My first Rails site there was Apache/fcgi. Now, everything is proxied to lighttpd, which flat-out rocks. Kelly F. wrote: > Does your _shared_ hosting account work without errors? > I’m interested in both positive and negative reports. If you are > willing, > please contribute > > - name of the hosting service > - how long you have used them > - your experience (“flawless!”, “it’s crap!”) > > You _do not_ need to reply saying your VPS service works great. This is > about _shared_ hosting and I’m trying to understand if it > works…anywhere. > > (Yes, I am trying this again. Responses from my last question veered off > course. Some people did reply with success stories. Thank you.) > > My premise is that 1) shared hosting services use apache proxied to > lighttpd > to fastcgi, and 2) with hundreds of users, requiring lots of apache > restarts > and 3) periodic errors for visitors to the hosted site.